Papyrus' Grand Prix Legends is still considered to be one of the finest racing games of all time. When Papyrus Racing Games released its final installment in the storied NASCAR Racing series in ...

The humble plant that grows in the Nile had a huge impact on the written word in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and thereby on the cultures of the rest of the world. A small museum in Cairo shows how ...

Scientists have finally unlocked the secrets of a mysterious 2,000-year-old papyrus document. The strange artifact, which has mirror writing on both sides, has baffled experts for centuries. Written ...

Why do readers love books? For wisdom and wit, the lift of comedy and the noble pain of tragedy; for advice, comfort and entertainment. But content and sentiment apart, they are loved as objects. Most ...

John Gaudet looks and sounds like he could have walked right out of a Graham Greene novel, or maybe written one of those classic African explorer books. Seventeen years on the continent for the Rhode ...

Centuries ago, one of the first Christians in the Roman Empire to live in the province of Egypt wrote a letter to an acquaintance on papyrus—a kind of thick form of paper used in ancient times. This ...

For the first time in 1,900 years, humans have been able to read ancient text dating from the height of the Roman Empire. The historic text was written on a scroll of papyrus – a material similar to ...

In this video, we explore the criticisms and cultural perceptions surrounding the Papyrus typeface. We discuss its origins, ...

A new papyrus dating back over 1,880 years is giving archaeologists new insight into the Roman world’s legal system. Academics from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and the ...